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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 3047859" data-attributes="member: 94">I need to wrap up a few things with Bill to get you guys sort of back on the same clock. I'll be quick about it if Rodrigo will!BILL[sblock]A little under an hour later, a nervous ratman led Bill deeper into Rot Town for his audience with Janatoss.As Bill had correctly guessed from the name, Janatoss was an abomination—but there was such variance among the abominations that his expectations ended there. Janatoss was mostly lizard-like, with enormous goggling eyes and oily, iridescent black scales that seemed to change color, ever so slightly.She (he? it?) cast her eyes approvingly over Bill and motioned for him to come forward. The surly got from the gambling den roughly shoved Bill forward, and he would have stumbled right into Janatoss had she not darted out her hand to seize him by the collar and hoist him off his feet.Bill held his breath and forced himself not to choke or struggle.“Slave, huh?” said Janatoss. “We can get that off you. Not now, though. Maybe leave it on you just a little while.”Janatoss looked Bill up and down, dangling him in the air and turning him this way and that, like a slab of butchered meat. Her thick, black tongue flicked reflexively in and out of her mouth and for a moment Bill thought she intended, literally, to taste him.“Quite a prize, quite a prize…” she whispered. At last, she set him down. “Get him out of here!” she bellowed, and Bill flinched ever so slightly. But it was the squeal from behind that forced Bill to look back over his shoulder, just in time to see the ratman cower under the other abomination. One stroke felled the ratman, and the abomination roughly hauled him up by the arm and let him dangle.“You work for me now. I hope you got more sense than he did.”Bill swallowed hard and forced himself to speak—to do more than meekly nod. “I do.”“They say you can fight; that’s good. Can you shoot?”“Quite well, yes.” Bill was feeling more confident. If this was a test, he was doing pretty well.Janatoss grabbed a sleek crystal rifle from beside her chair. Bill was no expert on crystal technology, but he could tell the weapon was the highest quality—a hunting or sniping rifle, for sure. Janatoss stood and ushered Bill a little farther back across the room and gestured to her guard, who still held the limp ratman by one arm. “Hold him up a little higher. Good. No, turn him around so I can see his face. Perfect.”She pushed the rifle into Bill’s hands. “Put one somewhere impressive. An eye or something.”[/sblock]</blockquote>

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